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When, how, and by whom was thiamin discovered?
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• In the 1890s in east Asia, a Dutch doctor, Christiann Eijkman, paved the way for the discovery of thiamin.
• He noticed that chickens and pigeons that ate polished rice developed polyneuritis.
• Eijkman noted that polyneuritis was also a symptom of beriberi in humans.
• Eijkman changed the birds' diet and the birds recovered.
• In 1911, Casimir Funk identified thiamin as the curative factor in the unpolished rice.
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